happy st. nick's day. I hope you found something nice in your shoes

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

We get drunk and loot today?

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Be well

GO BEARS!!!

You damn Catholics and Lutherans always screwing everything up.

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10 More Wins

what's the difference between Lutheran and Catholic ? like it's pretty similar right

one is going to heaven

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Not one of the better Virgin Islands.

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Not a mult.

well that isn't similar then

No not similar.

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Flew too close to the sun on wings of pastrami

So you dont think Catholics are going to heaven?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

i dont think Lutherans believe in heaven and hell

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

They absolutely do believe in heaven and hell.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Oh, really? Cool.

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

Isn't that every day in Chicago? Get drunk, loot, and carjack?

Lutheran churches are autonomous and get their dogma from scripture, where Catholics have a hierarchy & the pope. That informs much of what the 2 churches believe about things like sacraments, forgiveness, saints, clergy, etc and make them pretty different from one another.

A Priest, and a little boy.

a quick study of religion tells me that Lutherans believe that faith in Jesus is enough to enter Heaven, whereas Catholics believe in the rituals, good vs bad deeds and atonement for such and forgiveness in order to be considered worthy of heaven.

and the catholic church also covers up the rape of children

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

so Lutherans are better ?

It's like when you go to the store and there are Kellogg's brand cereals on the top shelf and then those oddly named similar brands on the bottom shelf. Lutherans, Anglicans, various Orthodox are the bottom shelf. Then you have the religions created in the US, like Pentecostals, etc. Those are like shopping at Aldi. Finally you get to the Mormons, Scientologists and storefront churches, which are like buying recently past due boxes from a corner store.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

How do the different synods play in to this? Like the Missouri Synod? You don't hear good things about that one.

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"I honestly don't see a good bet on the board here."

Papists don't read the Bible. That's why they believe good works can get them into heaven.

John 3:16

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

The thing that kills me about the Johnny-come-latelys is when they refer to a saint as St. Luke or St. Etc. Look, bitches, we got a process for that, and you ain't involved. Go splay rabbit entrails over your lawn and read them for omens or whatever you do.

Among white folx, Catholics would have a better football team.

In all seriousness, the idea of faith over works is bonkers. Actually, that's something I really think is rational. Having a "close personal relationship with God" is a weird concept, unless you are talking about meditating. I'm an agnostic, though.

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There's really only two choices, God or The Programmer. Unless you want to fall for the snake oil of the something from nothing Quantum fields or the"infinite" multiverses.

Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior?

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

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General Jim wears Fort Bragg down... to get it!

Johnny-come-latelys. My men of the cloth were slaughtering Muslims four hundred years before the Society of Jesus existed. (Actually, they were hermits.)



smh

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Completely fair.

I grew up through public schools, went to a Catholic university while my brother went to a Jesuit university. He acted like our schools were the same…they were not the same.

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Faith alone? No

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Well...

With faith comes responsibilities. It's not really faith if those responsibilities aren't accepted.